AddressAge UK's Digital & Technology division is recruiting for a Service Desk Analyst to join our Service Delivery team in Ashburton, Devon.
The Service Desk is embarking on an exciting time as we look to create lots of new processes, procedures and working practices. The Service Desk will become the Single Point of Contact for all IT related incidents and requests.
As Service Desk Analyst, you will be part of a small and dedicated team triaging, logging, assigning, and resolving Incidents and Requests for our Charity staff and volunteers in both of our business and retail areas. You will also provide regular in-person support at your designated charity office(s).
Covering our key contact channels, including Service Desk Portal (self-service), Email, Teams Help Channel, telephone and in-person. You’ll provide on-site and remote first touch support for all of Age UK’s IT Infrastructure – including desktop, hardware, software, mobile device management, Telephony and AV. This involves Incidents, Requests and Changes in both our business and retail areas.
With strong attention to detail, you’ll be tasked with administrative activities associated with the Service Desk – including reports, account management, moves, adds, deletes and changes.
You’ll also have accountability for ticket logging and allocation within the ITSM tool, setting an example on ticket quality.
This role offers hybrid working, where you’ll spend up to 3 days a week on-site, plus ad-hoc cover as requested, working the rest of the time from home.
Working hours are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Our core hours are 08:00 until 19:00 with cover required on a rota basis.
If you are an experienced Service Desk Analyst, dedicated to providing a first-class customer experience then we’d love to hear from you.
Must haves:
- Previous experience as a Service Desk Analyst or Desktop Engineer.
- Previous Incident Management and Request Fulfilment experience; logging and resolving.
- Office 365 administration and support experience.
- Windows 10/11 troubleshooting and support experience.
- Hardware experience; preparing devices for deployment, re-imaging, etc.
- Active Directory experience.
- Passionate about providing a brilliant Customer Experience.
- Experience of working in an ITIL environment with a demonstrable knowledge of how ITSM processes are utilised to deliver an outstanding service.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
Great to haves:
- ITIL Foundation or SDI Analyst qualification.
- Experience/understanding of key Programmes such as Customer Experience, BRM.
- Telephony (Preferably Teams and Twilio) experience.
- Microsoft Intune experience.
- AAD experience.
- Experience working on an internal Service Desk.
- Hornbill experience.
- Experience of carrying out IT processes/managing end users’ expectations in an IT environment.
- Experience of carrying out IT processes, with experience of managing end users’ expectations in an IT environment.
What we offer in return:
- Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
- Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
- Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
- Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
- Blue Light Card Scheme
- You Did It Awards – recognition awards from £100-250.
Additional Information
This role is hybrid between home-based and your designated office(s) with up to 3 days a week on-site plus ad-hoc as requested by the Service Delivery Management team.
For a full list of benefits please click here https://www.ageuk.org.uk/about-us/jobs/employee-benefits/
All CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role at Age UK. Please note that our system is unable to anonymise cover letters, and we would therefore ask that to support the work we are doing on making our recruitment selection process fairer and more unbiased, that you remove any personal information from your cover letter/supporting statement, including your name before uploading this. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us once you are invited for an interview.
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. We guarantee an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria under the Disability Confident Scheme. Please note that on occasion, due to high numbers of applications, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.
Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.
Age UK politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We do not accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
